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Jason Thurmond, charged with shoving an off-duty Kendall County police officer, leaves the Kendall County Courthouse in Yorkville during a break on the first day of the trial on Monday, November 5, 2012. | Steven Buyansky~Sun-Times Media
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YORKVILLE — On the first day of testimony, defense attorney Richard Irvin critiqued the behavior of a Kendall County sheriff's deputy who drew his gun in a crowded Walmart last Super Bowl Sunday.
Jason Thurmond, 38, of Montgomery, went on trial Monday, charged with battery for shoving the off-duty officer at the Oswego Walmart on Feb. 5, 2012.
The incident that led to a Kendall County jury hearing a misdemeanor case began with a dozen eggs.
The cashier at the discount department store told Thurmond and his wife, Nicole, that the eggs were not covered by their WIC card, which provides assistance to low-income pregnant women. Thurmond's wife was nine months pregnant at the time.
Thurmond left the line to get different eggs. The wait for his return, and the couple's loaded cart in an express line, irritated some of the people who were waiting behind the Thurmonds. Craig French, an off-duty Kendall County sheriff's deputy, was next in line, and sarcastically asked the pregnant woman if she could count.
When Jason Thurmond returned to the line, he told French to stop talking to his wife. He then shoved French, who at some point drew his gun in the crowded store.
Thurmond was charged with misdemeanor battery for making physical contact with another person in a threatening manner.
In her opening statement, Kendall County Assistant State's Attorney Lisa Accardi said Thurmond had "no reasonable justification under the law" to shove French.
But even among Monday's prosecution witnesses, there was disagreement about who was the aggressor — Thurmond or French.
Irvin, who is also an Aurora alderman, said Thurmond returned to the line to see his wife red-faced and being yelled at by a man wearing jeans, a coat and baseball hat. Irvin said the cashier had waved the couple over to her line, even though they had more items in their cart than the recommended number for the express lines.
French admitted on the stand Monday that he joined in with other customers who were questioning Nicole Thurmond's mathematical abilities and educational background. French said he was frustrated with how long it was taking to ring them up.
"Ma'am, can you count?" French testified saying to Nicole Thurmond. "You realize that you're holding everyone up."
French said he did not know Nicole Thurmond was pregnant.
French said the next thing he knew Jason Thurmond was coming at him in an aggressive manner, waving his arms and asking "Why are you talking to my wife like that? C'mon (expletive)."
Thurmond then shoved French in the chest. French did not fall down, but stepped back.
When Thurmond kept approaching, French drew his gun.
French later told his bosses he drew his weapon because of Thurmond's size (5-foot-5 and 355 pounds, according to court records) and the violent action Thurmond was showing. French told Kendall investigators that it was the most scared he'd ever felt in his 17-year police career.
Irvin critiqued French's behavior, pointing out that he didn't identify himself as a police officer until after his gun was drawn, he never tried to quiet down the other customers and he never offered to help Nicole Thurmond.
"Now that wasn't protecting and serving, was it?" Irvin asked.
"I guess in those terms, no," French said.
Prosecutors rested their case Monday afternoon. Irvin is expected to present his case Tuesday, and Thurmond and his wife are expected to testify.


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By Paul Myerberg // Jul 5, 2012
Here's the trade: you can have the most successful year in program history, but as a result must hire a brand-new coaching staff for the following season. How many programs are making this swap? More than you'd think. It's easier to pick those who wouldn't make this trade, and it's a short yet distinguished list – Alabama and Virginia Tech, and not many more. Southern Mississippi knew when it hired Larry Fedora that it was entering into a sort of pact: Hattiesburg was a stepping-stone for Fedora, but the Golden Eagles were fine with him leaving for greener pastures if certain thresholds were passed before he walked out the front door. Perhaps Southern Mississippi is willing to make that trade once, but I don't think they want to make it twice. Hence the program's decision to hire former South Carolina defensive coordinator Ellis Johnson, a coaching lifer hungry at a shot with an F.B.S. program after a pair of short-lived head coaching stints at Gardner-Webb and The Citadel.

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Having survived the rainy night we awoke to grey but dry skies and packed up the truck in between photos of the stunning terrain that surrounded us. Valley of the Gods is BLM land and a great place to experience the beauty of Southern Utah without all the restrictions and regulations of National Park Land. Driving out, we wound our way through the red rock buttes before hitting pavement, having to cross a small stream that hadn't been there the evening before when we drove in.
As we headed south towards Monument Valley we made a couple of side trips. Only a few miles off the road is Goosenecks State Park, essentially a bluff-top parking area with a famous view of the goosenecks in the San Juan River. There was a whole tour bus that had camped there the previous night so suddenly the paste-like mud we had dealt with in Valley of the Gods didn't seem so bad (Goosenecks was my backup spot).
A few photos later and we were back on the road, passing through the small town of Mexican Hat, UT (named for the nearby upside-down sombrero shaped rock) and shortly crossing into Navajo Territory. Along the way a familiar view came into sight – you may remember this from Forrest Gump and any number of other movies/car commercials.
After a breakfast stop at Gouldings (a hotel/giftshop/RV park and the *only* thing in the area) we drove into Monument Valley. $5 is the entry fee and National Park Passes are not accepted (it is a Navajo Tribal Park). The skies were a bit dull for photography so we decided to do the short hike (the Wildcat Trail) around the famous western Mitten Butte. It's the only hiking trail in the park and the only place you are allowed to hike without a guide. We enjoyed our tour through the desert including our interactions with wild horses and reservation dogs.
Following the hike we drove a few miles in on the dirt park road to check the views from some different angles. Sprinkled among the turnouts are wild horses, more wandering reservation dogs, vendors selling jewelry, navajo tacos, and services like getting your photo taken on top of a horse. I enjoyed our visit to the park – seeing that classic view in person was great. I just wish the light was better for photography.
After the morning at Monument Valley we continued west and took a short side trip into Navajo National Monument. It was icy cold but we did the short hike to the viewpoint of the ruins in the canyon below. I would love to come back and do one of the guided tour hikes into the actual ruins – they looked incredible. There were tools and baskets, and from a distance it looked like they were abandoned yesterday. After a short visit we continued west towards our destination for the night – Paria Canyon/Grand Staircase Escalante.
The weather still was not cooperating. Once we got back into cell phone signal range I pulled up the radar. Big splotches of storms covered the area over our intended campsite for the night with no end in sight. I was still soaked and muddy from the previous night. We had planned on stopping for a shower in Page, AZ anyways, so that turned into "let's just get a cheap hotel and dry out". An hour later we were snug and dry in the Rodeway Inn, in the second to last available room in town (overheard the clerk on the phone with another hotel: "Just filled our last room, I think Motel 6 has one or two rooms left.") We listened to some big storms roll through and were glad we weren't out there. Normally I'll just suck it up but we hadn't had a shower since Denver – it was time to stop, dry out, warm up, and regroup. And also to have some BBQ and beer for dinner. Mmm.
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But I've completely embraced the concept of food preservation. My friend Katy and I had a child-free "girls night in" a couple weeks ago and we preserved a box each of peaches, okra, tomatoes and cucumbers. It was a long and messy experience, but by the end of the weekend — too much to preserve in just one night, it turns out — we had more than 20 quarts of cucumber pickles, eight quarts of pickled okra (the only way my daughter and I will eat those crunchy pods), 12 pints of peaches and nine bags of frozen tomatoes.
After staying up until 2 a.m. making pickles, we just froze the tomatoes whole instead of canning them. Once defrosted, the tomato skins peel right off and can then be canned whole, diced or used directly in a recipe or as a sauce.
Freezing is one of the easiest ways to preserve fruits and vegetables, especially if it's just one or two pieces at a time. When a fruit gets bruised, you only have a day or two before the whole thing is toast and only fit for consumption by the compost bin. A good way to save it is to cut out the bad spot, peel (if needed), dice or slice the fruit and pop it in the freezer. Then you have tasty fresh fruit whenever you need it — for smoothies, baking or a tasty ice-cream topping.
Lately, instead of putting diced peaches in a freezer bag to use later, I go ahead and make them into a quick meal — breakfast pops.
In my house, "popsicle" is too much for 2- and 3-year old tongues to say, so the frozen treats are known as "pops." And like most toddlers, my kids go through periods where they don't want to eat — usually anything, but especially breakfast, that most important meal of the day.
But when I ask, "Do you want a pop for breakfast?" I'm not usually met by much opposition. (Except for my son — he has to be difficult and doesn't like them, so it's dry cereal for him.)
Homemade pops are really easy to make, as long as you have a popsicle mold, available in the kitchen goods department of most stores. For my breakfast pops, I fill the mold about a quarter to half full with diced peaches, squishing them down into the bottom with a spoon to remove any large air pockets. Then I spoon vanilla yogurt over the top until the mold is full, put in the stick and stick the whole thing in the freezer overnight. The next morning — viola, breakfast pops. It's just as healthy as the fruit and yogurt that is my daughter's usual breakfast, but a lot less messy.
While peaches and tomatoes can survive a day or two with a bruise and still be mostly useable, one fruit that won't last is figs. My neighbors graciously agreed to let me harvest their fig tree, and I'm on my third or fourth Halloween-bucket full, which you may not know is the official measurement of fig picking. Figs are delicious and delicate fruits that only last a couple of days before they get squishy, gross and moldy. I accidentally left my last harvest out on the counter overnight, and several figs were already moldy the next morning. Not only is a counter full of fermenting figs gross, but it makes your house smell like a winery.
This last batch — or at least what I was able to salvage — was rinsed, stemmed, placed on a baking sheet and popped in the freezer. They freeze whole and will be good for making glazes and toppings later on down the road.
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Tuesday night, Bernalillo County commissioners are set to vote on an ordinance that would increase the minimum wage for all businesses that have a license or registration with the county to $8.50 an hour.
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LaundryTODAY discusses what going steamless means for today's laundry with Gerard O'Neill, President & CEO of American Laundry Systems.
Q : What has brought the concept of a steamless laundry to your attention?
A : We at American Laundry Systems have been going to Europe for a number of years now and looking at the advances they are making with their laundry processes. Europe has the reputation of producing cutting edge, state-of-the-art laundry technology - more advanced then the typical American laundry. For the most part, Europe is advanced on the production, finishing and washroom side with state-of-the-art systems. But at the back of the house, with boilers, water systems, water reuse and reclamation - we have the advantage.
However, the one thing that they did do is design the steamless concept. Their energy costs are much higher than ours and their operational costs are much higher than ours. So it was their way of jumping ahead. Where we recycle and reclaim in the US, they typically don't. But they jumped that era of advancement and went to steamless.
Q: What exactly does it mean to go steamless?
A : The concept of steamless works like this—to eliminate using steam to heat water or to heat the equipment that is being used on the finishing side. What American Laundry Systems did is that we educated ourselves on the steamless process, and then realized that we can use that technology here in the United States but we can also use our technology of reusing water and heat reclamation combined with the steamless concept. Now, we've leapfrogged Europe on the steamless technology.
Q: What are the advantages of going steamless?
A : When a laundry goes steamless and plugs in the utility savings while considering the ROI, there is an advantage. But when you take the steamless technology from Europe and combine it with our technology of reusing and recycling water – there is a greater advantage for a facility when considering utility costs.
West Michigan Shared Hospital Laundry was the first large scale healthcare steamless laundry in North American. Now, they are 100 percent steamless. However there are other facilities that have dabbled or experimented with going steamless but they are not near the 100 percent. Some facilities may have purchased thermal ironers but they still use steam to make hot water or use hot water in the tunnel washers.
Steamless is a catch phrase and at present out of the six new plants that we will be building in the next 18 months – 50 percent – or three of them, possibly a fourth, will be steamless. That is turning the industry on its head. I think that the steamless technology is here to stay and the wave of the future. I believe that if you're building a new plant or retrofitting an old plant with new state-of-the-art equipment – steamless is definitely for you.
Q: Should everyone consider going steamless?
A : Absolutely not. It's not for everyone. Industrial laundries would be a clear exception. They need steam because they do a lot of pressing and hand pressing, dry cleaning pressing, etc. It's not for them.
Now, steamless works really well for general linen, healthcare, hospitality, retail, and medical plants. They don't do a lot of pressing – if any. But you can still use the steamless concept with a customer who has minimum requirements for presses because you can always buy a small steam generator and use it for that department alone. Those types of laundries can be 95 percent steamless.
Q : Are there other exceptions?
A : Yes. Not everybody can afford or can get a budget together for financing all new equipment either when they are rebuilding a new plant or retrofitting a plant. Sometimes your budget will not allow you to buy all new thermal ironers and you may need to keep your steam ironers which do a good job. But if you are going to hold on to your ironers, then steamless doesn't make a great case. If you have to have a boiler anyway to make steam for your ironers, then you might as well use it to make hot water for your washroom.
But for those who just need a little steam, they can purchase a small steam generator – a box the size of a large air conditioning unit. You'd buy that to do your presses and everything else in the plant would then be steamless. That pays for itself for sure. But if a laundry is going to keep 2, 3, 4, or more ironers, then you've got to buy a boiler to provide steam to those pieces of equipment.
My philosophy is that if you have to buy a large boiler, 200 or 300 horsepower – you might as well use it to heat the water for your washroom. And there are very efficient boilers out there – boiler technology has advanced in the last few years. They may not be as efficient and green as steamless, but they are very good.
Ultimately though, the steamless concept drastically reduces your carbon footprint. Not only is that good for the environment, it is also very attractive when you're with new green eco-friendly clients.
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DURHAM, N.C. — A fire in the laundry room at a County Jail in Durham damaged goods but required no evacuation. The fire, which originated in a dryer, damaged hundreds of uniforms. In addition to the lost goods, the jail's laundry sustained water and smoke damage. The fire was extinguished by the sprinkler system that had been activated.


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Magic Mike actor Channing Tatum, whose wife Jenna Dewan is pregnant with their first child, admitted he has lazy tendencies and loves to relax on the couch at home in nothing but his boxer shorts. Channing said "I like being in my underwear on the couch. I'm not a morning person and I'm really good at sleeping."
The 32-year-old actor also likes to wake himself up by cannonballing into his pool from his balcony, adding "Sometimes I don't even shower, I just jump off our balcony into the pool. Jenna doesn't worry, she knows who she married. That's how I wake up in the mornings, just cannon ball into the pool. It's just one story."
Channing also revealed a secret talent for massages and says he could have become a professional masseur if acting hadn't worked out. He said "I could have been a professional. The only class I really liked at school was anatomy." Excuse me while I go cannonball into a pool of cold water now.
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Fraunhofer Institute on OOXML und ODF
The Fraunhofer Institute has published a whitepaper on the interoperability of Office Open XML (OOXML) and the Open Document Format (ODF). Microsoft had a hand in its development.
The first part of the Fraunhofer Institute whitepaper with the title "Document Interoperability: Open Document Format and Office Open XML" describes use cases in which ODF and OOXML would work well together. The second part analyzes both in terms of the demands the use cases make. In the introduction, the authors hope that their analysis "will be useful in understanding how the ODF and OOXML standards compare, and how their functionality can be mapped between the two formats." However, they do not compare implementations of the standards "which can cause additional kinds of interoperability problems."
The results are rather sobering. Whether the conversion from one document type to the other is successful depends on the complexity and functionality of the document as well as the "translatability level" of the tool used. A closed loop where, say, an ODF document is converted to OOXML and then back again is nigh impossible. The problems arise, according to the analysis, from the ambiguities of the standards and the extensions to the document formats, even if they conform to the standards. The success ultimately lies in the instruments used, which the standards often don't cover. The authors recommend developing validators for the purpose. All in all, the basic compatibility between ODF and OOXML remains largely undefined.
In its conclusion, the whitepaper addresses Open Source activities by identifying their strengths and successes: "There are still many unanswered questions in the field of document interoperability. However, current developments in the field of the standardization as well as interested communities in the Open Source environment are working on and providing solutions to solvable questions and providing clearer views on limitations."
The 90-page whitepaper is available as PDF after a short registration. The Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) in Berlin is the author and publisher, with some acknowledgements to (and possible financial help from) Microsoft.
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A transgender high school student who applied to prestigious, private, all-female Smith College has been rejected because the school only accepts women.
Smith returned Calliope Wongs application and application fee earlier this month, reports The Advocate.
As you may remember from our previous correspondence, Smith is a womens college, which means that undergraduate applicants to Smith must be female at the time of admission, admissions dean Debra Shaver wrote in a letter to Wong, The Advocate says.
Wong has identified as female for several years, according to the Keystone Student Voice. However, on the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) Wong apparently checked the gender box saying male.
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How running changed the life of one Philadelphia teenager
The kid figured it out for himself, and that made all the difference. Jonathan Ros was 17, not even 5-foot-9, with two small-boned Cambodian parents. One day he stepped on a digital scale with red lights that screamed a weight he had not seen before: 205. "I knew I had to do something," Jonathan said. This moment of clarity arrived last spring, when Jonathan was a junior at Parkway High in Philadelphia. The revelation came to him during a break from playing Halo 3, a violent video game. He knew he wasn't fast, or even particularly athletic. Still, he decided to join the Parkway track team. True drive comes from within.
For years, Jonathan's weekend breakfast had been a box of microwaved Hot Pockets. Lunch was a box of Hot Pockets with a side of rice, washed down with a Coke. A long trail of potato chips led from lunch to dinner, where he'd eat a box of Hot Pockets with rice and whatever traditional Cambodian dish his mother, a Hyatt housekeeper, was making. On a slow day he logged 10 hours playing Halo 3, but 12 was typical and some days went longer than that.
He didn't work. He didn't play in the various rec leagues that are as common in his South Philadelphia neighborhood as cheesesteak shops. When his mother and father, a factory worker at a Dietz & Watson food processing plant in South Philadelphia, pointed him to the great outdoors -- or to the Murphy Rec Center, practically in his backyard -- he retreated to a nearby screen. Halo awaited.
The Eagles, the Phillies and the Sixers play their games a half-mile from the tidy Ros family rowhouse, but those games were little more than an expensive rumor to Jonathan. Rocky's inspiring training run through the nearby Italian Market, known to generations of Philadelphia kids by way of battered DVDs, meant nothing to him. For a third of his life or more, Jonathan Ros's thing was Halo 3 and Hot Pockets. Until last spring, when the scale woke him up.
His first steps as a runner were in secret. He could barely make it from his house to Broad Street, about 10 city blocks away, and didn't want anyone to know.
He quickly realized there wasn't really an event for him on the Parkway track team, not one in which he could be competitive. But Jonathan wasn't looking to be a competitive runner, not in the usual sense. He wasn't in position to help Pathway win meets in Philadelphia's historic Public School League, where there are teams named after Lincoln and Franklin and King, among other giants. More than once Jonathan finished eighth of eight in the 400. "I'd look behind me," he said in a recent interview at his school. "There was nobody." When he ran the 800 -- two trips around a 400-meter track -- he worried that the fastest runners might lap him.
Still, in his own way, he was competing. No question about that. He was attempting about the hardest challenge the human experience can pose: he was trying to change.
In life, for good or for bad, one thing always leads to another. When the Pathway track team would practice, Jonathan would sometimes see another group of kid runners off in a corner, doing their own thing. They stretched and huddled for long periods and when they actually ran speed seemed like an afterthought. By May, following the lead of a friend, Johnny Lee, Jonathan migrated over to that group of runners, to the Pathway branch of a distance-running movement called Students Run Philly Style.
The goal of SRPS is to get Philadelphia city kids off their couches and onto the city's streets (and sidewalks and parks) as they train for 5K runs, 8K runs, the annual 10-mile Broad Street Run and, ultimately, the Philadelphia Marathon, held each November. (I became aware of the organization through my son, who had an unpaid SRPS internship as a high school senior.) The program's runners and volunteer coaches, called mentors, are much more likely to celebrate miles logged than the speed of those miles. Here and there, on Philadelphia's many miles of beautiful running trails, you'll see people in Students Run Philly Style running shirts stenciled with the words I RUN THIS CITY.
"When I first saw Jonathan -- well, kids are bigger today than they used to be," Erik Wiessmann, a Students Run mentor, seeking just the right words. "But I would have described Jonathan as ... chunky."
Wiessmann, a serious distance runner, is not. He's an RPI-educated computer scientist/whippet who was an owner of a company that designed board games for PalmPilot. (He knows about video addiction and even Halo 3.) About seven years ago, looking for more meaningful work, Wiessmann became a science and technology teacher in the Philadelphia school system and an SRPS mentor. Wiessmann, 39, is an accomplished distance runner himself who has run marathons in under three hours.
"It's actually a strong trait, to be able to play these video games for one, two, three hours at a time," Wiessman said. "You can take that trait and apply it to running."
Jonathan did what every beginning long-distance runner does. He started short, and over time stretched things out. His weight fell not quickly but steadily. When he earned his first pair of free running shoes through steady participation in the program, he beamed. When kids at Parkway noticed his waist size going from 36 to 34 to 32 to 30, he felt a pride that not even his Halo 3 victories brought him.
Distance runners are odd eaters. These days, Jonathan will often have baked chicken for breakfast and lunch, then for dinner he eats his mother's traditional Cambodian dinners. He snacks on fruit. He drinks only water. On his iPhone is a picture of his digital scale on a recent morning when he weighed 153.8. "He told me to stop buying the Hot Pockets," Jonathan's mother, Kim, told me. "I was happy."
There are other Jonathans, many of them, in Philadelphia and across the country. Los Angeles has the oldest city-wide distance-running program for schoolchildren, called Students Run LA. In 2004, a Philadelphian named Heather McDanel, a distance runner and a public health administrator, followed suit in the cheesesteak capital of the world. Now there are a dozen or so other major cities with similar programs.
When she started, McDanel went from one Philadelphia school to another, trying to sell distance running to kids who weren't playing basketball or soccer or, typically, anything. Talk about your tough sells: she was often pitching to kids who were on track for obesity and diabetes. And all she was offering them were the joys of running long distances in the early morning.
"Our first year, we had 30 kids run the Broad Street," McDanel said the other day, in the SRPS offices on Broad Street in Philadelphia, where she works with the organization's three other paid staffers. The 10-mile Broad Street Run goes right by her building, which houses the National Nursing Centers Consortium, of which SRPS is an offshoot. "This year we had 450." McDanel, a running zealot, was beaming. The Nursing Consortium is a not-for-profit group committed to public health. It's doing its job.
Eric Wiessmann, the slender SRPS mentor, will tell you that almost any teenager, when his or her first marathon is approaching, will look for reasons to quit. It's like they are standing at the base of Everest. All of Jonathan's training for last month's Philadelphia Marathon was right on a track, but then he suffered a twisted ankle about a week before the race, a twist severe enough that he had to walk the hallways of Pathway on crutches. He could have easily dropped out, even though a doctor gave him clearance to run. But he didn't.
He got up at 3:30 in the morning on race day, on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. He put on his running shoes and his SRPS technical running shirt. He already had on the lime-green wristband that bears the three-word motto of the program: Courage, Effort, Respect. He took the Broad Street subway line toward City Hall and met up with Johnny Lee and hundreds of other SRPS runners and volunteers. His ankle was tender. The morning was cold and windy. He hydrated and stretched and pretended that he had everything under control.
The race began at 7:30, with Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter at the start line high-fiving hundreds and hundreds of runners. Jonathan, in his starting corral far back from the elite runners, stood in the wind on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, his back to the Art Museum and its Rocky steps. Hundreds of other SRPS runners were in the crowd, too. The race began and Jonathan started chugging along. At various time he heard "Gonna Fly Now," the Rocky theme song; a chorus of cow bells; Nicki Minaj; various string bands. The race course took him past City Hall, practically past his school, and into the heart of South Philadelphia, in the vicinity of his family home. Around Mile 4 there was a sign: Paul Ryan Would Have Been Here an Hour Ago.
The streets, in places, were lined with cheering people. Jonathan concentrated on the fall of his feet on the old Philadelphia streets. Mile 10 turned to Mile 12. Fourteen turned to 20. Quitting was never a thought. He ran with his buddy Johnny Lee for a spell. He saw bunches of other kids in SRPS shirts. He kept on going. He crossed the finish line and thought, "I did it. I actually did it. I can't believe I did it." A year earlier, he could not have run a single mile.
If you look at the race website, Jonathan's performance in the Philadelphia Marathon is summed up by these three facts. His time was 5 hours, 32 minutes. Of the 11,635 finishers, he was number 10,907. His average mile was 12 minutes, 41 seconds. Those numbers obscure a deeper truth. He's now in the fitness elite. After all, what percent of the world's population can run 26.2 miles at all?
Jonathan has his marathon medal in his house, and this thought in his head: he set out to do something, and he did it. "It takes courage because there's a lot of pain, running for a really long time," Jonathan said. He's a shy and quiet kid, unsure whether he is going to college or the military after he graduates from Parkway in June. "It takes effort because you have to build up to it. It takes respect because you have to respect yourself to be a serious runner. You have to treat yourself right."
Those three words -- courage, effort, respect -- are more than a motto to Heather McDanel, the dynamo behind Students Run Philly Style. They are game-changers. Life-changers. She's seen it, with Jonathan and with many others. "His life was changed by an athletic pursuit," she said the other day. "Most people can't handle the things life throws them." She was referring to obesity and diabetes and other health issues. She was referring to way more than that. "Our runners can handle anything."
The marathon came and went. Christmas, New Year's, too. Slow and slush and some days winter days that were warm and windy. And Jonathan Ros kept running, running to gradution, whatever comes next. Running for his life.


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The Malaysian football season officially came to a close on Tuesday as the FAM presented awards to the best players of 2012 in a grand ceremony in Shah Alam, with the winners drawn from votes of Super League and Premier League coaches.
However, attention was quickly drawn to Baihakki when he queried the nomination system on his personal Twitter account, although the Singapore international believes the players recognised on Tuesday were the rightful winners.
"It's an enjoyable pastime but don't take [what people say on] Twitter too seriously mate." said the 28-year-old who has close to 50,000 followers. "Whatever the case, they were deserving winners.
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I'll def be at the album shows as well!
I sure as heck can't wait....anyone going to the ablum shows as well?
looks like Mahaffey is all seated which I actually prefer. It's a really cool theatre. I can't wait!!! Never seen them live. One of my all time favorites.
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Mendocino County knows how to celebrate. Our festivals include celebrations of our signature local foods such as crab, salmon, abalone and mushrooms and many wonderful events that feature our wines and locally brewed beers.
The winter holidays are a magical time in Mendocino County, with annual traditions that stretch back generations and delight young and old alike. Other annual events celebrate whales, music, art, film, vintage locomotives and California's oldest continuous rodeo.
No matter the time of year, there is always a unique, fun and unforgettable experience to be had in Mendocino County!


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Contest Rules
Photo submissions must be of food.
Must be over the age of 18 to enter.
Contest is open to legal residents of the United States only.
The photo submission period begins May 1, 2012 at 12:00 am. The deadline for photo submissions is May 31, 2012 at 11:59 pm (the "submission period").
Online voting begins on June 1, 2012 at 12:00 am and closes June 15, 2012 at 11:59 pm (the "voting period").
Photos must be submitted electronically through the online entry form. Digital images will not be returned.
Maximum one submission per email address during the submission period.
Maximum one vote per email during the voting period.
In the case of a tie, the Museum of Photographic Arts will decide on a winner.
There shall be no substitutions for the prizes except by the Museum of Photographic Arts, in which case a prize of equal or greater value will be substituted.
If any provision(s) of these Contest Rules are held to be invalid or unenforceable, all remaining provisions hereof will remain in full force and effect.
The Museum of Photographic Arts is entitled to interpret these rules as needed and its decisions are final.


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The only issue with this is if the user clicks "Action" and "Select Columns", the checkbox item shows the html code ("<input type="checkbox"…") instead of a nice name. I think I'll be able to get away with this.
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Jeff, Thanks for nicely documented select all functionality.
I am seeing a issue when I try to filter records and then select all the filtered records. In that cases the select / unselect all is not working.
Any Tips ?
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I am having a problem with checkbox. our database has alot of data over a million. for some error type column we my have 7000 rows and when a user would like to relieve the errors when selecting the checkbox and click the error relieve button, some rows will not be selected I believe because the user must click next to get to the next page to select other rows and this is not possible because APEX will continue processing the data and the reports will stuck. I am looking for a way to change the pagination from 15 to 100 and apex doesn't allow me to do so. aCTUALLY i CAN'T FIND THE PAGINATION ON THE REPORT, WOULD YOU LET ME KNOW WHERE i CAN FIND THE PAGINATION LINK/ICON?
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Dec 29 2012 by Marc Waddington, Liverpool Echo
More than 20 Merseysiders recognised in Queen's New Year Honours
A PENSIONER who has devoted nine decades of her life to the Girl Guide movement was among the Merseysiders recognised in the New Year honours list.
Ivy Gardiner, 90, is one of more than 20 people from across the region who have been recognised for their achievements.
Famous names include Waterloo-raised Cherie Blair, wife of former Prime Minister Tony, and fashion designer, and daughter of former Beatle Sir Paul, Stella McCartney who was given an OBE.
But some of the most inspiring tales of service are those of people like Mrs Gardiner, the until now unsung heroes who have devoted themselves to their communities.
Mrs Gardiner, 90, joined the Brownies in 1929, the year of the Wall Street Crash that plunged the world into depression.
But she has brought smiles to the faces of thousands of young girls over the years, rising up through the ranks to become District Commissioner for Wirral, where she lives. She is still involved in the movement to this day.
Mrs Gardiner said she was given the news that she was to be made a Member of the British Empire (MBE) in November, and struggled to keep it to herself – as sternly instructed by the letter from Downing Street which notified her of the accolade.
She told the ECHO: "I had to be so careful not to tell, but in the end I had to tell my daughter. I just couldn't keep it a secret, but I only told her.
"I've been involved in the Brownies and Guides for years and have enjoyed every minute of it. In a way I can't really understand why I should be honoured for doing something I love to do."
One of the highlights of her time in the movement was when, on taking the Brownie oath in 1929, she took a salute from Scout Assocation founder Lord Robert Baden Powell and the then Prince of Wales, Edward VIII, who were on their way to the first Scout Jamboree in Arrowe Park.
During World War Two she assembled Jeeps and Doughty bombers at the Lever Brothers factory in Port Sunlight.
Her MBE was officially for "services to young people and the community in Wirral", where she has been a Sunday school teacher and school governor during her time.
She added: "At first I couldn't believe I'd got it, I just put the letter away in the drawer, but then it sunk in."
Brenda Murray, one of the original founders of the Liverpool History Society, was given the British Empire Medal (BEM).
Mrs Murray, 88, of Blundellsands, was recognised for "services to heritage and history".
She had been a tireless campaigner to see a bronze bust of former British prime minister Sir William Gladstone placed in his birthplace of Seaforth.
Mrs Murray said: "My family are all very excited and I am looking forward to visiting Buckingham Palace after being invited to a garden party there in the summer."
Other local champions honoured include mum-of-two Tracey Fisher, 46, from Bromborough, who has dedicated the last 28 years volunteering to help youngsters achieve their Duke Of Edinburgh Awards.
She said: "I enjoy working with the young people who are aged between 13 and 25. We have an opportunity to help them grow and mature.
"When they come along and do their bronze they are quite young, and then when you help them through the levels, by the time they do a gold they have matured into lovely people."
Former Merseyside chief constable Bernard Hogan-Howe becomes a 'Sir' after receiving a knighthood.
Sir Bernard, who is currently the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, said: "I am very proud and thrilled at this recognition of the hard work of colleagues in the Metropolitan Police, South Yorkshire, Merseyside and Her Majesty's Inspectorate. I couldn't have achieved this without the love and support of my wife Marion, and my mum, who hasn't seen this day."
At the other end of the policing scale, Cheshire Police detective constable Jacqueline Crank becomes, in her own words, the "first rank and file" officer from the force to receive a gong, being awarded the Queen's Police Medal.
Mrs Crank, 58, who works in the counter-terrorism unit, said she was "surprised but highly delighted" at the accolade.
Cherie Blair, wife of former prime minister Tony Blair, becomes a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for services to "women's issues and to charity in the UK and overseas". She said she was "very honoured" to receive the decoration.
Other Merseysiders recognised include Alice Davidson (OBE), of the Liverpool Volunteer Missionary Movement, for services to international humanitarian aid, and Southport's John Nicholson (OBE), who was executive for services to the London 2012 Olympics, as a programme executive for the Olympic Delivery Authority.


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WAG will meet at historic Chester Inn10:56 am | July 3, 2013
The Watauga Association of Genealogists will meet July 9 at the Chester Inn, 116 Main St, Jonesborough, at 6 p.m.
The group will meet in the annex behind the Inn. Everyone is asked to bring their favorite finger food to share with the group.
After refreshments are served, the group will be provided a guided tour of the inn. Built in the late 1790s, this inn, considered Jonesborough's oldest frame structure, has hosted U.S. Presidents Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk and Andrew Johnson.
Anyone interested in genealogy is welcome to attend. For additional information, call Jim Wilson, 283-0318.


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Rue out of the bike building business is sad to say the least. I would have loved to have had a frame done up and was lucky enough to get a set of bonded bars (bar/stem bonded together) and received nothing but the best service and hands down the most amazing bars. I was reading this thread just waiting for a response and loved what Bella had to say. Always two sides to the story and it is great to now get the other side.
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This past week, there have been several essays and one debate that provide some good perspectives on what we don't know about climate change, and whether we should be alarmed.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Five Olympic medalists and other current and former members of the U.S. speedskating team filed complaints accusing head coach Jae Su Chun of "unchecked" verbal, physical and psychological abuse.
Nineteen athletes filed a wide-ranging grievance against U.S. Speedskating and 14 signed a complaint with the U.S. Olympic Committee. The Chicago Tribune and Salt Lake Tribune reported on the accusations.
Attorney Edward Williams, who represents the skaters, said the abuse was "outrageous."
The code of conduct complaint accuses Chun of slamming an athlete against a wall and repeatedly hitting him, throwing bottles and chairs at skaters, and repeatedly telling female skaters they were "fat" and "disgusting."
Safe4Athletes Appeal for Change
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Unlike athletes and students in schools and colleges who are protected by Title IX's sexual harassment and abuse provisions, athletes in open amateur sports are currently unprotected from coach or sport leader misconduct except by criminal law. While the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has promulgated recommended policies, it does not require its national sport governing bodies (NGBs) nor the local organizations and coaches who are members of these championship conducting entities, to have such protections in place. Thus, children and adult participants in non-school youth sports programs nationwide are vulnerable to pedophiles and unethical coaches who use parent and athlete respect for their positions to manipulate their athletes to engage in inappropriate relationships and sexual exploitation.
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Coach-athlete "romances" are the dirty little secrets of sport. No one wants to talk about them. Now and then, a high profile scandal rips through the headlines—as when University of North Carolina's legendary soccer coach, Anson Dorrance, was accused of sexually harassing his players.
1 On these infrequent occasions, the glare of the media spotlight forces a brief period of introspection about the proper boundaries of the coach-athlete relationship. Even then, it is mostly the extreme allegations that garner attention—conduct clearly identifiable as sexual harassment, especially if it involves a sexual assault. In the case of Coach Dorrance, the complained-of behaviors were verbal and did not involve physical advances; 2 the notoriety of the case stemmed from the coach's fame and track record and its addition to a small handful of reported court decisions involving coach-athlete sexual harassment in intercollegiate sports.3 Absent headline-grabbing scandals, however, coach-athlete relationships are rarely examined for their impact on womens sports and athlete well-being. This is largely because they do not come within the ambit of Title IX, which sets the agenda for conversations about gender equity in sport.
Athlete/Parent Short Cuts Lead to Athlete Suffering in the Long Run
Training to be an elite athlete requires discipline and focus beyond what any of us can imagine if we haven't had such experience ourselves. Parents must bring that same discipline and focus to child/athlete protection and be committed to ensuring a safe and positive environment sports environment.
Taking short cuts is intentionally skipping a responsibility in the hope that no one will notice or someone else will do it. An athlete knows that skipping a work-out or eliminating ten more repetitions at practice is the difference between winning and losing. When the well being of our children is at stake, short-cuts simply cannot be acceptable.
Taking short cuts in practice is often frowned upon by teammates. If team members have to do an entire workout to the best of their ability, then every team member commits to achieving this goal. The pressure around teams to be individually accountable is so strong it's at the heart of the sport and the basis of the sport work ethic. As long this pressure on each other stays within safe and positive and doesn't extend it's self into bullying (more on that issue at www.safe4athletes.org), the result is impressive. Similarly, parents need to pressure each other to be concerned about issues of athlete welfare.


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Late spring is a time of transition in the park, as the park's plants flourish in higher temperatures. Stop by for lunch, a snack, or a frozen treat, and enjoy the coneflowers, ornamental onions, and roses that characterize this time of year.
June also marks the return of your favorite High Line Programs. Discover another side of the park through walking tours, performances, dance parties, and more.
Download a free High Line Guide, the June Bloom List, and the latest High Line Art Map to guide your next visit. Check out the High Line's food vendors to plan a meal at the park.
Summer hours take effect on Saturday, June 1, with the park being open from 7:00 AM – 11:00 PM.
Relax on the 23rd Street Lawn, enjoy a snack from one of our food partners, or just take an evening stroll to celebrate the beginning of the summer season.
Follow @highlinenyc on Twitter for the latest information and operational updates.
Presented by Friends of the High Line, High Line Art has commissioned Carol Bove to present Caterpillar, an installation consisting of seven large-scale sculptures on the High Line at the Rail Yards.
View the commission during art walks taking place on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays until May, 2014. Tickets are free. Advance reservations are required.
Reservations are full through Saturday, August 3, 2013. Check back in mid-June when reservations will be available for walks taking place in late summer and the fall.
Paul Grieco and Marco Canora's popular wine bar, Terroir, is once again operating a seasonal location at The Porch, the open-air café on the High Line.
Stop by to take in views of the Hudson River while enjoying savory dishes and cold, refreshing drinks from Terroir's wine and beer list, which highlights artisanal wineries and breweries from New York State
The café is open daily. Get hours, location, and more details
May is a beautiful time to visit the High Line.
The landscape is filled with fresh green growth and spring blooms. New artworks are installed throughout the park. The High Line's food vendors are open daily, with delicious snacks for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Each week there are free tours, stargazing, and activities for adults and kids alike.
Make the most of your next visit. Download a free High Line Guide, the May Bloom List, and the latest High Line Art Map to guide your trip. Check out the High Line's food vendors to plan a meal at the park.
Presented by Friends of the High Line, High Line Art has invited Dutch artist Guido von der Werve to show his 9-minute video – Nummer negen, the day I didn't turn with the world – at the park.
The film, which features time-lapse photography taken over a 24-hour period at the North Pole, is projected daily on a loop within the 14th Street Passage, on the High Line at West 14th Street.
Learn more about the artist and get details about HIGH LINE CHANNEL 14.
The High Line's spring hours begin on Monday, April 1. The park will be open daily, from 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM through the spring season.
Learn more about the High Line's recovery effort from Hurricane Sandy.
Visit the High Line in April, and you will find the park's landscape on the cusp of a new growing season, with fresh green shoots and early spring bulbs are popping up in the planting beds.
To guide your next visit, download a free High Line Guide, the April Bloom List, and the latest High Line Art Map.
Visit the High Line in March, and you will find the park's landscape on the cusp of a new growing season, with fresh green shoots and early spring bulbs are popping up in the planting beds.
To guide your next visit, download a free High Line Guide, the March Bloom List, and the latest High Line Art Map.
The High Line's plants are not trimmed back at the onset of cold weather in the fall. Instead they are left intact to provide structure, beauty, and habitat throughout the winter. That means when spring arrives, we work quickly to cut back the High Line's more than 100,000 plants make way for fresh green growth.
With generous support from Google, REI, and Toyota, hundreds of volunteers help us get the job done. In March, High Line Gardeners work side-by-side with students, neighbors, and friends to ready the landscape for the upcoming growing season.
Stay up-to-date on the progress. Follow @highlinenyc on Twitter for photos from the field, or visit the High Line Blog for weekly updates.
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